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PRAY, THINK, AND STRIVE! - ZaunköniG - 31.12.2010
PRAY, THINK, AND STRIVE!
Wouldst thou be safe from those, who plead or sneer
Against the virtue of our ancient frame
Of thought, and noble models ; wouldst thou claim
A full exemption from this modern Fear,
Pray, think, and strive ! with God's good Book for guide :
Be proof against the sweet word or the scoff :
A light-laid faith will soon be lifted off
Into some scorner's nostrils, when his pride
Smells at your simple creed in free disdain ;
Nor let the smile of gentler critics fix
Their spells upon you—they who deftly mix
Some Christian truth with errors black as Styx ;
Charming to sleep the conscience and the brain.
Without the spleen of coarser heretics.